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  • The Accidental City

    Improvising New Orleans

    This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to ... Leer más

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  • The New Orleans of George Washington Cable

    The 1887 Census Office Report

    Edición de Lawrence N. Powell ...
    A pioneering local-color writer about Creole New Orleans and a public advocate for black equality in his native South during and after Reconstruction, George Washington Cable (1844--1925) depicted in his writing the clash between American newcomers and a quaint but proud French-speaking population in post--Louisiana Purchase New Orleans. His work, including the short-story collection Old Creole ... Leer más

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  • Troubled Memory, Second Edition

    Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana

    This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled ... Leer más

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  • New Orleans City Guide

    The classic Federal Writers' Project guide to New Orleans history, folklore, and streets.Written in 1938 under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, this New Orleans guide was produced by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).A detailed portrait of the city, it gathers local history, folklore, photographs, and traditional recipes into a single volume ... Leer más

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  • George Washington

    The Founding Father

    de Paul Johnson ...
    Series Libro 29 - Eminent Lives
    By far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire against all military odds, and presided over the production and ratification of a constitution that (suitably amended) has lasted for more than two hundred years. Yet today Washington remains a distant figure to many Americans—a ... Leer más

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  • Revolutionaries

    A New History of the Invention of America

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    "[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers" by a Pulitzer Prize winner ( The New Yorker).In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary." But when events in Boston escalated, they found ... Leer más

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  • American Revolutions

    A Continental History, 1750-1804

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  • The Birth of America

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  • The Counter-Revolution of 1776

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    How the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War: "Meticulous, thorough, fascinating, and thought-provoking." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British ... Leer más

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  • John Quincy Adams

    Militant Spirit

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  • The Gift of Black Folk

    The Negroes in the Making of America

    A look at African Americans' contributions to the United States by the iconic leader whose life spanned from the Civil War to the civil rights movement.The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard and a cofounder of the NAACP, W. E. B. Du Bois remains a towering figure in US history. In The Gift of Black Folk, he celebrates Black Americans' struggle for equality—a battle that would ... Leer más

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